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P.11 #EDUCATION P.8 NDP LEADS LABOUR WORKERSMATTER P.3 SID RYAN PLANS DEPARTURE DAY PARADE IN TORONTO PRESIDENT’S REPORT ONTARIO FEDER TION OF LABOUR FALL 2015 VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 OFL CONVENTIONNOV. 23-27P.12 PRESIDENT’S REPORT VOL. 5 NO. 4 ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR FALL 2015 President Patrick “Sid” Ryan P.8 NDP HEADLINES LABOUR DAY IN TORONTO JOEL DUFF PHOTO: OFL NEWS Secretary-Treasurer Open Letter: Sid Ryan Announces His Departure ..................................................................3 Nancy Hutchison Labour & Human Rights Dates ..........................................................................................14 Upcoming Events .............................................................................................................15 OFL & AIL Canada Award Jack Layton Labour Post-Secondary Scholarships for 2015 ..........15 ODRT Worker’s Compensation Training Series 2015 (October 25-30) ..................................16 SPECIAL FEATURE: FEDERAL ELECTION 2015 ON THE COVER: OFL Endorses Tom Mulcair’s NDP .............................................................4 Executive Harper’s Economic Record is the Worst in Canada’s Post-War History ...................................6 Vice-President Three Ridings Riding on the Orange Wave ...........................................................................7 MEET THE OFL OFFICERS CENTRE SPREAD: Labour Shows Its Solidarity at Labour Day and Toronto Pride Parades .......8 Irwin Nanda OFL Labour Day Op-Ed: Harper Leaves Future Generations Behind .....................................10 OFL CONVENTION 2015 PRESIDENT’S REPORT Demanding the Ontario We Want: OFL Convention to Chart a New Course (Nov. 23-27) ........12 ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR Workers of Colour Symposium Takes Collective Approach to Racism (Nov. 21) .....................13 The Ontario Federation of Labour represents 54 Young Workers’ Assembly Puts Focus on Organizing Precarious Workers (Nov. 21-22) .........13 unions and one million workers. It is Canada’s largest provincial labour federation. ONTARIO POLITICS Volume 5, Issue 4 of the OFL President’s Report Ontario Elementary Teachers and Support Staff was produced for the September 29, 2015 Begin “Work-to-Rule” ...........................................11 meeting of the Executive Board of the Ontario Campaign to “Keep Hydro Public” Vows to Federation of Labour. Stop Sale of Hydro One ........................................11 Editor-in-Chief/Writing/Design/Layout: Joel Duff EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) Labour Responds to the Syrian Refugee Crisis .......14 Fédération du travail de l’Ontario (FTO) 15 Gervais Drive, Suite 202 Toronto, Ontario M3C 1Y8 416-441-2731 • 1-800-668-9138 TDD: 416-443-6305 • FAX: 416-441-1893 OFL Labour Day messages featured in [email protected] special supplement to the Toronto Star P.10 and in five Sun Media newspapers. This document was proudly produced with unionized labour: JD/ph:cope343 SUBSCRIBE TO THE OFL E-NEWSLETTER BY TEXTING THE WORD “OFL” TO 647-496-5602 OPEN LETTER TO UNION MEMBERS SID RYAN ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION September 28, 2015 Sisters and Brothers, I am writing to you – the activists and the grassroots of the labour movement – to announce that I will not be seeking re-election as President of the Ontario Federation of Labour. What I do next, what issues I champion, what challenges I tackle, has yet to be determined, but I will not be leading Ontario’s House of Labour. I am addressing you openly because you are the heart and soul of the labour movement. It is your interests I have championed throughout my career as a union leader and I want you to hear from me personally. If there is one thing that both my strongest supporters and my harshest critics agree on, it is that in mobilizing workers I have often spoken over the heads of labour leaders to reach union members directly. It is a critique that I wear with pride. I have had the privilege of serving Ontario workers for nearly a quarter century – 17 years at the helm of CUPE Ontario and the past six years as President of the OFL. At no point in my career have I made life easy or comfortable for the powerful. I have refused to compromise progressive principles for politically expediency. I have preferred to wage the working class fight – both inside and outside our movement – on the ground with the members. Our movement is always strongest when it is bold, transparent and principled. These convictions have guided me in taking some controversial stances during my career. When I lead CUPE Ontario into un- equivocal solidarity with the right to a free Palestine, when I called for negligent employers to go to jail over workplace fatalities and when I denounced police violence and racism, I put my reputation behind my convictions. When the circumstances required it, I put partisanship aside to defeat Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, just as today I am calling on every worker, in every riding, to make Thomas Mulcair the next Prime Minister of Canada. I have always believed that good leaders are not afraid to lead and no activist worth their salt can create meaningful change without ruffling a few feathers. It is no mystery that, along the way, I have accumulated some critics (you may have heard from a few in the pages of the Toron- to Star), but union members are unmistakably united. I have been elected unanimously three times as OFL President and union members have repeatedly given me a mandate to put equity, community and action at the heart of everything we do. Together, we put 10,000 people on the streets of Hamilton in support of steelworkers, 15,000 in London in support of autoworkers, 30,000 in Toronto in support of school teachers and support staff and we rallied for workplace rights in every region of Ontario. We have built an unprecedented labour-community alliance of over 90 groups that began the pushback against Rob Ford’s privatization agenda, challenged McGuinty’s austerity cuts, and catapulted inequality into the media. The enthusiastic response that I have received from union members, precarious workers and equity seekers across the province has been a powerful validation of the unity and solidarity at the core of our movement. It gives me hope that the labour movement is as vibrant and relevant as ever and, with the rise of precarious work, migrant labour and governments who put corporate interests ahead of the public interest, the need has never been greater. However, any movement is bigger than any one person. Some of the labour leaders who have opposed me have said that they share my values but they can’t unite behind my leadership. Today, I am issuing a challenge to these labour leaders to live up to their words: build an open and progressive labour movement that puts equity and social justice at its core, even when doing the right thing is unpopular. And to the union membership, I give the biggest responsibility: hold your elected leadership to the task, demand openness and transparency, call for equity and inclusion and, above all, give them the confidence to take strident stances. After all, none of us can accomplish a better future unless all of us believes that a better future is possible. In solidarity, Sign up for the OFL’s new e-blast updates by texting the word “OFL” to 647-496-5602 Follow & Retweet the OFL on Twitter at: Sid Ryan, President of the Ontario Federation of Labour @OFLabour and @SidRyan_OFL OFL PRESIDENT’S REPORT 3 SPECIAL FEATURE: FEDERAL ELECTION 2015 OFL Endorses Tom Mulcair’s NDP Canadians are in the midst of the longest ada’s international reputation is incalculable but prosperity, it is the one that Thomas Mulcair has federal election campaign in many decades, but the defining issue of Harper’s last term was the presented to Canadians.” Labour Day marked the mid-way point on the introduction of the dangerous and undemocratic Among the many popular commitments the road to the October 19 election and it was also Bill C51. NDP have promised are: the moment that each party kicked their cam- • Creating full-time, middle-class jobs; paign into high gear. To mark the occasion, OFL • Creating one million childcare spaces led the weekend with a bold media announce- There is one leader and capped at $15 a day; ment that it would be throwing its full and un- one party that can clean up equivocal support behind Thomas Mulcair’s bid nine years of Conservative • Expanding the Canada Pension Plan so no one retires into poverty; to become the first NDP Prime Minister in Can- corruption and economic ada’s history. • Expanding Canada’s medicare system to OFL President Sid Ryan called on Ontario’s mismanagement and that cover prescription drugs; 54 labour unions and over one million unionized is Thomas Mulcair and the • Reversing health transfer cuts; workers to volunteer their time for NDP candi- federal NDP. • Cutting emissions and tackling climate dates in every riding across Ontario. change; “Now is not the time to divide the strength of - OFL President Sid Ryan • Repealing Bill C51; and the labour movement by sending out confusing • Launching a national inquiry into missing messages about who should be the next Prime “When Justin Trudeau was called upon to take a stand against Harper’s attack on the and murdered Indigenous women. Minister of Canada,” said Ryan. “There is only fundamental rights of Canadians, his principles “The OFL helped to drive Ontario Conservative one leader and one party that can clean up nine failed him and his party cast their votes with the Leader Tim Hudak out of politics in 2014 and we years of Conservative corruption and econom- Harper Conservatives. Trudeau proved that he are convinced that a labour movement united be- ic mismanagement and that is Thomas Mulcair doesn’t have what it takes to lead Canada,” said hind Thomas Mulcair can deliver the same fate to and the federal NDP.” Ryan, “Only Thomas Mulcair had the courage Stephen Harper,” said Ryan.
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